Looking Forward, Looking Back

Photo: Allan Tannenbaum / Polaris

Scanning through the 9/11 coverage today, we found it hard not to notice a dominant trend: We’re moving on. The Times puts up a story about Mayor Bloomberg playing psychologist to a cheering city. The Post’s main story focuses on families setting up homes downtown and making lower Manhattan a “Verve Center.” Channel 4 and NPR ran upbeat interviews with Eliot Spitzer, Jon Corzine, and George Pataki about the development downtown. Notably, only the Daily News chose to wallow — respectfully printing all of the names of the dead but also neglecting to publish one word about the recovery of the site and the neighborhood. For details on memorial services throughout the day, seehere.